Ciao, Famiglia!
Thanks for your letters! It was so great to hear
from you all!
So, it's all been
pretty hectic and really exciting! I love my district and my zone, the anziani
and sorelle are awesome! We also have some Romanian missionaries in our zone.
I've seen some girls from my hall and Bethany and Carson and Davis and Elder
Pace, so that's been pretty fun! We're teaching an "investigator" named Claudio
and he's been pretty awesome, I think they're starting us off with someone easy!
It's really amazing how much of the language I already understand, and I know
that I could never do this without God's help. We taught our first lesson in
Italian with Claudio on Friday, so they really do make you jump right
in.
My companion, or collega, is Sorella Hawks, and she's pretty
awesome. She's funny and sweet and she knows the language really well because
she took it for like 5 years during school and a year at college, she helps me a
ton! She's so spiritual and a real inspiration to me. We have four Anziani in
our district, Anziani Davis, McPherson, Mayberry and Hubbard. They're all
awesome and funny and I can tell we'll have a good time! There are six sisters
in our room! Sorella Hawks and I, and Sorella Yonk, Hogan, Fuller and
Bray.
I'm so glad I took so much Spanish in high school because it's
really helped me. Some of the other anziani, didn't take any languages before
coming and it can be a real struggle for them. My teacher, Sorella Mohrman, told
me that I'm doing really well, and she was pretty shocked when I told her I
haven't taken any Italian before!
On Sunday we walked to the temple
in pouring rain and it was pretty fun, some people took some awesome group pics
so I'll try to get some to send to you. We got to watch the Ogden temple
dedication and Pres Monson and Elder Bednar spoke. I felt the spirit so
strongly, it was awesome! Also, I sang in sacrament meeting with my district, I
know your shocked, but I didn't have much choice. It was fun, we sang Nearer My God to Thee.
We woke up late on Monday because our alarm got
turned off during the night. We were 30 minutes late to our service project. So
that was a kinda bad start to our day. Before you ask, yes I get up on time each
day, and I'm not even the worst one at it! Later that same day, the fire alarm
went off while we were in the shower and the matron lady started shouting at us
to throw on a robe and get outside, so we were all screaming and frantically
running down the stairs wearing towels or robes or the bare minimum of clothes.
Some of us had wet hair or soap all over us and it was pretty cold outside. It
turned out to be a drill. At least we can laugh about it now!
Last
night we had Tuesday devotional, and Elder Ballard spoke to us! It was amazing
to hear him. He had some excellent advice to missionaries, like that every one
soul is of value and deserves to be brought unto Christ and he told us to just
get up and do our best each day. I don't have my notes with me, so that's all I
can remember now. Sorella Hawks wanted to sing in the choir at devotional, so we
did. We sang Joseph Smith's First Prayer, and it was pretty cool. The choir
director is really funny. The elders get to sing in general conference but not
the sisters, so we were pretty bummed about that.
Well, that
about sums up my week! I've felt the spirit so strongly every day! I know I'm
where I'm supposed to be, and even though it's hard, I'm loving it. I love you
guys!
Love, Sorella Snow :)
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